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Cognita Imaging, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Mosaic Clinical Technologies, Inc., operating within the broader Radiology Partners ecosystem) was awarded a $1.29 million research contract by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to pioneer new methodologies for evaluating autonomous, generative AI radiology reports.The 18-month contract, effective June 22, 2026, was funded under the FDA’s Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) program for advanced research and
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Rutgers, RWJBarnabas Health, and AWS Launch Innovation Hub at HELIX
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Rutgers University and RWJBarnabas Health—New Jersey’s largest academic health system spanning 14 hospitals and over 5 million annual patients—have partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch the Rutgers/RWJBarnabas Health Innovation Hub.Housed inside the Health and Life Science Exchange (HELIX) in New Brunswick, N.J., which serves as the physical home for the unified Rutgers School of Medicine (merging Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and New Jersey Medical
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MEDITECH Completes Expanse Implementation Across 34 Hospitals in HCA Healthcare’s First Two U.S. Divisions
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Healthcare IT leader MEDITECH has completed the enterprise deployment of its Expanse electronic health record (EHR) platform across 34 acute care hospitals in HCA Healthcare’s Capital and North Florida divisions.Represents the first two U.S. operating divisions to achieve full Expanse deployment across HCA Healthcare’s 15 nationwide operating divisions:Capital Division: 18 hospitals operating across Virginia and New Hampshire.North Florida Division: 16 hospitals operating
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Amazon One Medical Expands On-Demand GLP-1 Care to 48 States & Washington, D.C.
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Amazon One Medical has expanded its weight management and GLP-1 clinical care infrastructure across 48 states and Washington, D.C., updating its national delivery framework on September 15, 2026.Introduces a bifurcated access model dividing clinical touchpoints into two pathways:Insurance-Covered Primary Care Integration: In-person and scheduled video visits embedded within longitudinal primary care across markets with physical One Medical clinics, managing
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M&A: Hello Patient Acquires Converse Health to Unify Outpatient Front-Office Voice with Back-Office EHR Automation
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Hello Patient (Austin, TX) announced that it has acquired Converse Health, an AI workflow automation company built for independent outpatient medical practices.Founded in 2023 by CEO Louis Sallerson, CTO Val Zinchenko, and CRO Adam Teitelman (with Trenton Williams joining as VP of Sales in early 2024), Converse Health previously raised $1.3 million to deploy custom chart and document automation across dermatology, orthopedics, women's health, and pain medicine.Directly
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M&A: Medallion Acquires Andros to Unify One Million Providers onto an AI-Native Credentialing Platform
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Medallion, the AI-assisted healthcare credentialing and payer enrollment platform, announced on September 15, 2026, that it has acquired Andros, an NCQA-certified credentials verification organization (CVO) serving health plans and provider networks since 2013.The transaction combines systems to manage over one million healthcare providers across nearly 400 healthcare organizations and commercial health plans onto a single credentialing and data management
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Artisight Acquires Healthcare Infrastructure Firm TMG Global to Accelerate Enterprise Smart Hospital Rollouts
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Smart hospital and clinical AI platform provider Artisight has acquired TMG Global, a specialized technology services firm focused on healthcare infrastructure readiness, physical site surveys, and large-scale hardware implementations.The strategic acquisition directly addresses a major failure point in hospital digital health rollouts: the operational bottleneck of managing fragmented third-party subcontractors across physical IT infrastructure, leading to installation
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Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent for Nurses Expands Inpatient EHR Automation Across U.S. Hospitals
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Oracle Health has launched the U.S. commercial availability of Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent for nurses, embedding voice-driven and generative AI capabilities directly into the inpatient Oracle Health Foundation EHR (formerly Cerner Millennium).Directly targets the largest clinical workforce: while generative AI has predominantly focused on ambulatory physician note drafting, nurses represent the primary operational users of inpatient EHRs and face severe documentation
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PHTI Assessment Finds Virtual CKD Management Fails to Slow Disease Progression or Cut Costs
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The Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) has released an independent health technology assessment evaluating virtual solutions for chronic kidney disease (CKD) management across stages 3–5.PHTI evaluated eight prominent commercial companies representing billions in private capital and market capitalization: DaVita Integrated Kidney Care (IKC), Evergreen Nephrology, Healthmap Solutions, Interwell Health, Kidneylink, Monogram Health, Somatus, and Strive Health.The
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Amazon Pharmacy Expands End-to-End Spanish-Language Platform for 45M Americans
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Amazon Pharmacy launched a comprehensive, native Spanish-language pharmacy experience, covering every digital and clinical touchpoint from medication descriptions and transparent checkout pricing to Spanish-language physical prescription packaging.Targets a significant healthcare equity and access divide, addressing the nearly 45 million people in the United States who primarily speak Spanish at home, a population that faces disproportionate uninsured rates and widespread
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